Projects
Projects involving members of the Arts in Health Research Collective.
Une approche innovatrice auprès de jeunes adultes en situation de grande précarité : la détente psychomusicale en musicothérapie réceptive.
Examination of a community project with a music therapist working with youth at risk.
Vaillancourt, G., Peyrin, J., Brault, A., Thibeault, C-A., & Gosselin, N. (2022): Personalized audio montage: Impact of a receptive music therapy method-variation on youth experiencing homelessness, Nordic Journal of Music Therapy.
DOI: 10.1080/08098131.2022.2129428
Concordia University Seed Funding Program
AHRC Research Member: Guylaine Vaillancourt, PhD, principal investigator
Challenging assumptions about Aging, Dementia, and how music helps
Developing, implementing, and sustaining quality personalized music listening programs for persons with mid-late stage dementia
Online Presentation: Challenging Assumptions about Aging, Dementia and how Music Helps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTzdPc9dNq4
Co-authored Paper: Pandemic Precarity: Aging and Social Engagement
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01490400.2020.1773998?journalCode=ulsc20
Online interview related to above paper:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELqQgTRERH8&feature=youtu.be
AHRC Research Member: Laurel Young, PhD, principal investigator
Developing Community through a Music Therapy Singing Intergenerational Program.
Exploration of community building through an intergenerational group singing program.
Vaillancourt, G., Da Costa, D., Han, E. (Yi), & Lipski, G. (2018). An Intergenerational Singing Group: A Community Music Therapy Qualitative Research Project and Graduate Student Mentoring Initiative. Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy, 18(1). https://doi.org/10.15845/voices.v18i1.883
https://voices.no/index.php/voices/article/view/2536/2301
Concordia University Seed Funding Program
AHRC Research Member: Guylaine Vaillancourt, PhD, principal investigator
Developing, implementing, and sustaining quality personalized music listening programs for persons with mid-late stage dementia
Pilot Project supported by CIUSSS Innovative Practice Fund
AHRC Research Member: Laurel Young, PhD, co-investigator
Effect of a museum-based art therapy experience in the treatment of women with severe eating disorders
Evaluating the suitability of Museum-based art therapy program for patients being treated for eating disorders (in terms of patient satisfaction and tolerability) and assessing the short-term impact of art therapy on self-reported mood.
Partnership with the Museum of Fine Arts’ Education and Community Programmes, the Eating Disorders Program of the Douglas Mental Health University Institute and the Art Therapy Graduate Program, at Concordia University..
AHRC Research Member: Josée Leclerc, PhD, co-investigator
Examining lived experiences of singing in a bereavement support music therapy group
Supported by The Advancing Interdisciplinary Research in Singing (AIRS) Project and MCRI funded by SSHRC.
Publications:
AHRC Research Member: Laurel Young, PhD, co-investigator
The Hidden Face of Suicide
Award winning documentary film directed by Yehudit Silverman with funding from SSHRC and FQRSC involving ongoing projects and research around how the film can be used with specific communities to help with social action and resiliency.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1647391/
AHRC Research Member: Yehudit Silverman, MA, principal investigator
Interfaith Arts Dialogue
With funding from Concordia and the Raschkowan foundation, this documentary film research project brings together young adults and community leaders from Jewish, Christian and Muslim communities to take part in collaborative arts activities that can potentially shift their attitudes towards one another in profound ways.
AHRC Research Member: Yehudit Silverman, MA, principal investigator
AHRC Partners: Concordia Departments of Religion and Theology, Canadian Centre for Ecumenism, and the Montreal Intercultural Dialogue Institute
www.yehuditsilverman.com
Mental Health Education Research
Use of ethnodrama to explore the lived experience of caregivers for loved ones with mental illness.
AHRC Research Member: Stephen Snow, PhD
AHRC Partners: AMI-Quebec & Centre for the Arts in Human Development (CAHD)
Musicothérapie et santé mentale au Québec.
Interviews with Quebec music therapists about their work and passion for music and people
Vaillancourt, G. (2017). Musicothérapie et santé mentale : l’expérience de musicothérapeutes québécois. Revue canadienne de musicothérapie/Canadian Journal of Music Therapy (23)1.
https://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/983347/
AHRC Research Member: Guylaine Vaillancourt, PhD, principal investigator
Music Therapy with Women Survivors of Intimate Male Partner Violence
Development and evaluation of a music therapy program for women survivors of Intimate Male Partner Violence (IMPV), Concordia University VPRGS Seed Funding Individual Program.
AHRC Research Member: Sandra L. Curtis, PhD, (principal investigator)
Rape Culture on Campus & the Role & Influence of Arts & Pop Culture
A multi-sector partnership to investigate and develop policy and practice models to dismantle rape culture in universities, SSHRC Partnership Grant ($2.5 million, “IMPACTS: Collaborations to Address Sexual Violence on Campus”)
AHRC Research Member: Sandra L. Curtis, PhD, (co-investigator)
AHRC Partner: McGill University
Response-Art as a Reflective Inquiry: Fostering Awareness of Racism
An exploring participants’ experience in closed-group workshops designed to foster some consciousness of racial discrimination. Studying the function of response-art to foster an ethics of empathic reception of visual testaments of trauma and abuse.
Supported by Concordia University VPRGS Seed Funding Individual Program.
AHRC Research Member: Josée Leclerc, PhD, principal investigator
Seeds of Hope - An arts-based project to raise awareness about suicide
This innovative project brings together participants from diverse communities to work with the arts, culminating in a public exhibition of their works at the Museum.
AHRC Research Member: Yehudit Silverman, MA, principal investigator
AHRC Partner: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts/ Musée des beaux arts de Montreal (Education & Community Programs Department).
http://seedsofhopemontreal.wixsite.com/seeds
Singing, Health and Wellbeing
Supported by AIRS and Concordia University VPRGS Seed Funding Individual Program.
Publications:
- Research Paper (open access): Finding Our Voices, Singing our Truths. How Quality of Life Domains Manifested in a Singing Group for Autistic Adults
https://voices.no/index.php/voices/article/view/2554 - Online Interview related to above paper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzsNYmjMr00&feature=emb_logo - Co-authored online resource for the CAMT regarding singing and COVID-19
https://www.musictherapy.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/CAMT-Statement-on-Singing-during-COVID-19-November-2020.pdf - Research Paper: Lived experiences of singing in a community hospice bereavement support music therapy group
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02682621.2018.1493646
AHRC Research Member: Laurel Young, PhD, principal investigator
The Story Within – myth and fairy tale in therapy
An original creative arts therapies approach to working with trauma and personal growth through the use myths and fairy tales - Research examining training applications and longer-term affects.
https://www.yehuditsilverman.com/
AHRC Research Member: Yehudit Silverman, MA, principal investigator
Teach Me
Therapists in front-line settings share their work and knowledge in a filmed interview, workshop, and performance.
AHRC Research Member: Bonnie Harnden, MA, principal investigator
You Arrive/Tu arrives
An arts-based research initiative that harnesses the power of arts in health by using research findings combined with theatre to present the effects of family trauma on development across the life span and the treatment of trauma. You Arrive/Tu arrives illuminates not only the power of the arts to heal, but also to raise awareness.
AHRC Research Member: Bonnie Harnden, MA, principal investigator